_ 152 _ nor other arms and each one did not know what he should do. At this time a letter came from Sheikh Rashid, our enemy, and ally of the renegades in which he said that they were happy and took pleasure because the Turks were sailing with their fleet against places in Yemen, in the Kingdom of Aden, and that this news came to him from Sohar, where he had sent his men by sea and land to bring him such news, and thus the governors wrote sending this news from Sohar, where they are also friends of the renegades and pay them something each year. Now I request you for the love of God to come to this place of ours and without fear send help, which may be with few men, because with my own men I shall help, for which I am prepared in my difficult straits. You may truly believe this. And what I beg you and call upon you to do is that before your men reach us here you take me to the Sheikh of Muscat and hold me there with your power, because, believe me, just as the sun shines through all the world, so is the Sheikh of Muscat receiving help from the Portuguese. For their sake he killed my brother, so for the love of God give me vengeance against him for my brother’s blood.
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